By SorcererXIII on

Disclaimer: I have already searched the forums and the handbook.

I am totally new to Drupal so I want to check this out before committing to it. I want to make a new website using drupal's features - storys, blogs, comments, etc. However, I have some old (ancient) pages that don't use a CMS or even CSS but were fairly big with lots of links. I don't feel it's worth the effort of copying and pasting them into drupal and converting them to templates, etc, but I'd like to keep them around. I figured I'd link to them from a page called "These are my old websites", or something like that.

At the moment I just set them as subdirectories of public_html. I modified DirectoryIndex index .htaccess so that it accepts index.php, index.html, and index.htm in that order so as to allow people to browse my old sites . . . this seems to be working (Drupal no longer seems to override those subdirectories) but I wanted to see if this is really the "right" way of doing things or if there is some better method.

Also, and not as important, does drupal have a way of "ripping" its database-driven sites into an old style hierarchical file structure (like what i'd get if I did "save as" in a browser window for each page individually)?

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cel4145 commented

I've used HTTrack to convert entire class sites that were inactive into html. Here's one example.. Note that I've only created a static HTML version of the public part of the site.

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SorcererXIII commented

With regards to ripping them, that's perfect. This way I can keep a legacy version of the site whenever the Next Big Thing comes along and it's time to move on.